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MyBlogLog And Gravatar Support

In a previous post I mentioned that I would highlight a plugin that enables avatars from both MyBlogLog and Gravatar to be displayed at the same time. That plugin is called MyAvatars MyAvatars displays avatar images from MyBlogLog and Gravatar yet, Gravatar support is not enabled by default. Among the obvious, MyAvatar sports the following features:

Added nofollow for avatars (from 0.2b)

“No image bug” solved (from 0.2b)

Title attribute for avatars in english (from 0.2b)

“Big images” bug fixed (from 0.2a)

Improved XHTML validation (but we still use onload=””) (from 0.2)

Gravatar support (not active by default) (from 0.2)

Trackbacks/Pingback support (Works good, but it’s not perfect) (from 0.2)

Support for blogs with more than 1 author, works very well (from 0.2)

Separated CSS Style (from 0.2)

Email address is now safe!!! (from 0.2)

Customizable title for the avatars (from 0.2)

Gets MyBlogLog avatars of your commenters

Links directly to their MyBlogLog profiles

Easy installation & template integration

Added email support for retrieving profiles (from 0.1a)

If not MyBlogLog member will prompt the registration page (from 0.1a)

I believe everyone’s comments.php file is different but here is a screenshot depicting where I have placed the MyAvatar function.

I’m not sure what impact the recent acquisition of Gravatar will hold for this plugin but so far, everything still appears to be working normally. One of the cool aspects of this plugin is that, if WordPress integrates Gravatar support within the WP core, you can turn Gravatar support off so it only displays MyBlogLog avatars. This will allow you to keep the functionality of displaying avatars from both services.

I’ve actually created a Gravatar class if you click the link in my name. Loosely coupled and works like a dream – it also has a cache with an expiration date for the avatar – to save on loading times. It can merely load the avatar in locally.